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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 6 › Chapter 3 › Section 4: Of hoping in Jesus in that respect.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Growing Mortification hath its chiefest conflicts in spiritual lusts. At first we mortify grosser evils, such as Oaths, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, worldly-mindedness, or the like; but when we grow in this Blessed duty, we then set our selves against spiritual wickednesses; as Pride, Presumption, Self-carnal confidence in a man's own graces, or the like:1 this Method the Apostle sets down; let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit: first from all filthiness of the flesh or body, and then from all filthiness of the spirit or soul; as the children of Israel in their entrance into the land of Promise, first they sate upon the frontiers and skirts of the Land, and then they sought it out, and prevailed in the heart of the Country; so Christians in their mortification they first set upon worldly lusts, gross evils, outward sins; and when they have encountered them at the frontiers, they then conflict with such corruptions as lie more inwardly, in the very heart, spiritual wickednesses that are within. Now if this be our case, here is one sign of our growth,
1. Growing Mortification hath its chiefest conflicts in spiritual lusts. At first we mortifie grosser evils, such as Oaths, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, worldly-mindedness, or the like; but when we grow in this Blessed duty, we then set our selves against spiritual wickednesses; as Pride, Presumption, Self-carnal confidence in a man's own graces, or the like:1 this Method the Apostle sets down; let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit: first from all filthiness of the flesh or body, and then from all filthiness of the spirit or soul; as the children of Israel in their entrance into the land of Promise, first they sate upon the frontiers and skirts of the Land, and then they sought it out, and prevailed in the heart of the Country; so Christians in their mortification they first set upon worldly lusts, gross evils, outward sins; and when they have encountred them at the frontiers, they then conflict with such corruptions as lie more inwardly, in the very heart, spiritual wickednesses that are within. Now if this be our case, here is one sign of our growth,